MAMA XI 362 (Kana) 
Funerary inscription of a councillor
- Type of monument:
- Funerary inscription.
- Location:
- Gene (Beşağıl) (Kana): in the steps of a house by the mosque.
- Description:
- Rough block of blue-grey marble; inscription in incised panel at top (Ht. 0.40; W. 0.25). Below the inscription, an incised spindle.
- Dimensions:
- Ht. 1.24; W. 0.46; Th. 0.40; letters 0.020-0.040.
- Record:
- Squeeze; MB notebook copy; photograph (1957/49).
- Publication:
- None.
- Date:
- Third or fourth century AD.
Αὐρ(ήλιος) ΚΥΡ[. .]
ΝΗΣΙ βο[υ]-
λευτὴς
κ̣ὲ οἱ υἱοὶ αὐ-
5τῷ ἀνέστη-
σαν μνήμη̣ς̣
χάριν.
Aur(elius) Kyr..., councillor, and his sons, set this up for him in memoriam.
Illustrations:
Making a squeeze of MAMA XI 362 (Kana 8: 1957-49)
Squeeze of MAMA XI 362 (Kana 8: 1957-49)
The restoration in lines 1-2 is difficult. It is possible that the letters ΝΗΣΙ in line 2 represent an abbreviated patronym Νησι(ου) or Νησι(ος). The indigenous names Νησις and Νησιος were extremely common in Lykaonia (Robert 1963: 428; Zgusta 1964: 359-60 §1036); cf. Laminger-Pascher 1992: Index, s.v. Νησις; Ramsay 1918: 151-2, no. 8 (Konya), Νησιου (gen.); I.Konya 151 (nr. Seydeşehir), Νησιος (gen.); MAMA XI 377 (1957/68: Karaağaç). The name in line 1 could in that case be restored Κῦρ[ος] (cf. MAMA XI 338 [1956/180]).